ICC Note: As the battle to liberate Mosul rages on in the Nineveh Plains, Christian aid organization, Samaritan’s Purse, has set up a field hospital only six miles outside the war-torn city. This is critical as it means that those injured and fleeing the violence now have a fighting chance at survival. It is the closest medical facility to the fighting.

01/14/2017 Iraq (Christian Post): Iraqi soldiers, civilians and children critically wounded in the fight against the Islamic State in Mosul now have a fighting chance at survival thanks to a new field hospital set up just miles outside of the war-torn city by the evangelical humanitarian aid group Samaritan’s Purse.

The organization, led by prominent evangelist Franklin Graham, partnered with the Iraqi Health Ministry to open a much-needed field hospital located just over 6 miles (10 kilometers) outside of the city limits of Mosul last week.

The hospital, which spans 5 acres and has an emergency room, two operating rooms, and over 50 beds, is now the closest medical facility to the front lines of the war between the jihadi death cult and the Iraqi coalition trying to liberate Iraq’s second largest city. The hospital plans to remain open for at least six months.

Despite only being in its first few days of operation, the hospital and its staff of over 70-plus medical professionals have already saved the lives of dozens of people badly injured by the conflict.

Dr. Elliott Tenpenny, the hospital’s director, told The Christian Post this week that a majority of patients the hospital receives suffer from a variety of serious injuries caused by the war, such as shrapnel wounds, gunshot wounds and burns. He added that “every single one of them is a trauma from the war and all of them are in need of surgery or they are critically ill and in need of stabilization.”

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